More and more Senator Clinton's looking like a Neo-conservative. First she tries to slam Senator Barack Obama for taking a liberal stance on two foreign policy matters -- Bin Ladin and Third World Leaders -- that she herself took just earlier this year, and now, before a group of Vets, she says the Iraq surge is working!
More and more Senator Clinton's looking like a Neo-conservative. First she tries to slam Senator Barack Obama for taking a liberal stance on two foreign policy matters -- Bin Ladin and Third World Leaders -- that she herself took just earlier this year, and now, before a group of Vets, she says the Iraq surge is working!
And this as 14 more Americans pass on in Irag!
We're seeing a clear pattern emerge and it's not pretty. It's a Senator who will say anything to get a vote and so often that her real stance isn't clear. At present, Senator Clinton looks like the kind of Neo-conservative we already have in the White House. Moreover, her husband the great President Bill Clinton was also a Neo-Con
What's a Neo-Con? Well, according to source watch a "Neo-Con" is..
"A neo-conservative (abbreviated as neo-con or neocon) is part of a U.S. based political movement rooted in liberal Cold War anticommunism and a backlash to the social liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s. These liberals drifted toward conservatism: thus they are new (neo) conservatives. They favor an aggressive unilateral U.S. foreign policy. They generally believe that elites protect democracy from mob rule. Sometimes the spelling is "neoconservative."
In my view, the best book on this subject is one that's still in my library. It's called "The Neoconservatives" by Peter Steinfels and was very influential in my political intellectual growth as a teenager and turned me on to a magazine called The Atlantic Monthly. It was my first introduction to the way of thinking as well as the fact that not one party had claim to this point-of-view -- there were both neo-conservative Democrats and Republicans.
Where I differed with the book's presentation of neoconservatism was in an area that may serve as a causionaty tale for African American Clinton fans: Civil Rights. In the book, written in 1979, Steinfels argues that many of the identified Neo-Cons of the time became so because of the first the Civil Right Movement, and second because of the government structure that was formed because of it. That is, Steinfels implies that even though Neo-conservatives were supporters of Civil Rights, they seemed -- some of them like Irving Kristol -- to believe that the policy reponses like Affirmative Action were too far away from what they advocate.
It was in this part of the book that he lost me. As a young Black teen reading this, I was hit with the realization that Steinfels was writing about a White point of view, rather than giving a comprehensive look at people who had Neo-con ideas regardless of color.
I felt left out.
So because of that I never became a Neo-conservative and believed then and still hold classically liberal ideas. I've watched with considerable joy the country turn toward my way of thinking and move slowly away from Neoconservative thought. It's begining to sound like a perjorative. Senator Clinton's making a huge mistake here and will not soon recover from it because to do so would result in another massive round of flip-flopping.
Maybe she'll so anger Cindy Sheehan, she's run against her instead of Rep. Pelosi! Whatever the case, this latest news has caused a firestorm, and will negtively impact her California Primary plans.
Geez.